Very soon, the Indian Railways might be run by private agencies

#bibekdebroy #indianrailways #mamtabanerjee #kolkatametro The high powered Bibek Debroy panel has suggested several ways to ensure that the Indian Railways become a profit making concern and one of these ways is to hand over its working to private concerns. It should delink from producing coaches, wagons and locomotives and switch over to commercial accounting of railway functions. Moreover, it should hand over the running of both passenger trains and freight trains to private players.
Moreover, this Debroy panel has also suggested that the national transporter delink itself from welfare services like running of schools and hospitals apart from managing the Railway Protection Force (RPF).
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 1 April 2015.

Another of its suggestions is to have an Indian Railway Manufacturing Company to replace all existing production units and, simultaneously, have another holding company for railway stations.
The panel has also indicated that there should be one ministry of transport in the future and that the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation should be detached from the railways – it had been integrated during the tenure of Mamata Banerjee as rail minister.
The suggestions are very practical ones because, till now, the Indian Railways has been used as a political tool and each and every railway minister has played to the galleries and has tried to get things done for his or her constituencies. Many of the projects that have been sanctioned have remained on paper and innumerable foundation stones have been laid but not the corresponding railway lines.

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